#lifehistories — Public Fediverse posts

Travis et al. show that four #experimental populations of #guppies are regulated by the effect of density on new recruitment. This work complements prior work on #densityDependent #evolution of #lifeHistories and verifies predictions from classic theory.

Read now on the ahead of print page! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725796

I never got round to writing an #introduction, so here goes:

I am a #postdoc on #TheGuppyProject, which is a #LongTermStudy looking at stream ecosystems in Trinidad.

I am interested in #EvolutionaryEcology, in particular #LifeHistories and fluctuating dynamics.

I use field data, mescosm experiments, and models to try to understand ecological and evolutionary dynamics in the wild.

JEB is now on mastodon! #introduction We are a peer-reviewed international #societyjournal owned by @eseb

We seek to publish articles that advance understanding of the evolutionary process and of interest to a broad #evolution readership.

We welcome submissions from across the field including evolutionary #genetics and #genomics #molecularevolution #phylogenetics #lifehistories #evolutionaryecology #evodevo #morphology #microevolution #macroevolution #empirical, #computational #theory